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Apple Magic Mouse

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davidg4781

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Oct 28, 2006
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Just wanted to put this out for anyone that's researching it.

I bought a Magic Mouse a year or so ago. It's sat in a drawer this entire time, mainly because I use my laptop on top of my lap 99% of the time.

I've been doing some other stuff and decided to actually use the mouse.

OMG, once you spend about 10 minutes getting used to all the gestures it is such a nice piece of hardware. Eh, may not be as comfortable, especially if you're doing a lot of heavy mousework, but for normal stuff and needing it to just help navigate it's pretty slick.

The next day at work I kept trying to swipe back and forth between pages. Wasn't working on our Dell mice.
 
davidg4781 said:
Eh, may not be as comfortable, especially if you're doing a lot of heavy mousework, but for normal stuff and needing it to just help navigate it's pretty slick.
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The reason it gets uncomfortable to use the magic mouse is because for more than a decade or 2 mice have needed to be held a certain way, and THAT WAY is not comfortable with the magic mouse long term. I loved my magic mouse when I had one, but it took about a week to adjust to how to hold it without using normal mice.

BTW, have to checked out the magic trackpad? I'm done with mice altogether.
 
Dalton63841 said:
BTW, have to checked out the magic trackpad? I'm done with mice altogether.
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I have both, and I use the MM about 80% of the time. However I just yesterday got a MacBook Air, my first Mac laptop - so using the trackpad there may make me more comfortable with the trackpad on my desktop.
 
My favorite setup is Magic Mouse for navigating, and then I have the trackpad on the left side of my keyboard as a sort of gesture pad. Best of both worlds!
 
100% right! :)
i dont want to seem full of myself, but it's one of the things you just don't understand how you lived without it. i had to fix my brother's PC (drivers and such) - so im using his mouse and i say "what the hell is wrong with this mouse (my gesturing to the left angrily)" :D
 
davidg4781 said:
I have a MacBook Pro so I'm assuming my trackpad does the same as the Magic one, right?

If I ever get a desktop I'm definitely getting a MT.
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Yes. It's great being able to use all the same gestures and movements between your laptop and desktop. None of that awkward few minutes of readjusting to a mouse after using your laptop a lot.
 
I enjoy the gestures truly, but it's probably the most uncomfortable mouse I've ever used. If you follow Razer, there are different kinds of mice and ways to hold them, primarily Claw or Palm. The palm technique is impossible with the Magic Mouse, it's just way to low so clawing is the only way to make it work, but it's pretty much the most intense claw every, just finger tips and nothing else.
 
I'm the other way around...I loved it at first then realised how crap it was. Not exactly the best made Apple product and depending on the surface you use it on it's a pain to move sideways.
 
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